Posted on 11/03/2017 7:17:43 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Marketers have put NBCUniversal on notice: Stop covering NFL players' national-anthem protests, or we'll pull our ads.
That's according to Linda Yaccarino, the chairman of advertising sales at NBCUniversal, who spoke during a keynote interview at an event held Friday in New York at the ad agency RGA.
Yaccarino said no advertisers had pulled out of NFL games because of the protests, but that advertisers were telling the network that could change.
"Marketers have said, 'We will not be part of the NFL if you continue covering it,'" Yaccarino said.
Since last year, when Colin Kaepernick, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback at the time, started kneeling during the anthem to protest racial injustice and police brutality, several NFL players have joined the protest. President Donald Trump has been highly critical of the players' actions.
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Let’s hope NBC gets labeled as ‘racist’ for not covering protest ... now that would be a bigger win ...
“Stop covering NFL players’ national-anthem protests, or we’ll pull our ads.”
Good start, but NOT enough! Should be “Get those overpaid, spoiled brat/thug NFL players to stop protesting the USA, its police, and its military or we’ll pull our ads.”
If a superbowl happens at the end of the season, will there be anybody left who notices?
The new meme from the idiots as to the cause of the drop in ratings is “media saturation”.
I don’t believe it. The ad buyers are even more leftist than the NFL progressives.
I’m surprised the DOD has not pulled their NFL ads....
Or at least has threatened to pull them...
Of course they do, the cowardly hypocrites!
And as long as they advertise, I'll boycott Pepsi, Papa Johns, Bud, Ford, and all the other brands that support spitting on our anthem, flag, and country.
This is a trainwreck.
Probably so, but they are smart enough to understand this is causing them to lose dollars.
The ad buyers are even more leftist than the NFL progressives.<<
Take note and remember how they pay Dividends in your 401K....lol
I am done w/Fed Ex, Papa Johns, McDonald’s, Anheuser-Busch, Pepsi....companies all I have done business with.
When they leave the NFL, I might go back.
Official sponsors:
http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Daily/Issues/2015/09/23/Marketing-and-Sponsorship/NFL-sponsors.aspx
If viewers have to speculate about how many are disrespecting the anthem might make it worse.
It does not matter. I am not watching and I am not coming back to the NFL.
As for sponsors, any that I am aware of I avoid spending my dollars with them if I can.
Papa Johns lost out on five pizzas for our Halloween party. It used to get our business. No longer.
Big Brands want to sweep the protest under the rug.
Won’t work.
It ain’t about covering it, it’s about doing it.
Going forward, military flyovers of MFL games should include a bomb drop.
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